Jorge Rodríguez: Bukele tried to sabotage negotiations to release 252 Venezuelan migrants

Published at: 21/07/2025 10:03 PM

This Monday, July 21, the head of the National Dialogue, Jorge Rodríguez, reported that from day one, the 252 Venezuelan migrants kidnapped in El Salvador, “were subjected to very serious psychological torture.”

“That's exactly what the Nazis did in the concentration camps. They wanted to turn them into some kind of beasts. They (the migrants) mentally resisted, they did not lose that connection in the face of so much barbarism,” he highlighted in the Digital Zone segment, of the 86th edition, in his program “With Maduro +”, hosted by the President of the Republic, Nicolás Maduro.

He also argued that the president of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele, tried to do everything possible to sabotage the negotiations and commented that Bukele, in a desperate act, tried to prevent the two planes bringing the 252 Venezuelan migrants already released to Venezuela from taking off.

Rodríguez also stressed that in the conversations he had with representatives of the United States, he showed them that Venezuelan migrants were not criminals.

He added that he explained to them that it was “a campaign that has been going on since 2019, when the extreme right began to discredit Venezuelans by inventing any kind of thing. That is why the xenophobia, misogyny and racism that was unleashed in various countries against Venezuelans.”

Mazo News Team